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Monday, February 4, 2019

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes first public appearance since cancer surgery”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 9:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Iowa Republicans introduce bill that gives lawmakers, governor more power over courts”: Barbara Rodriguez and Stephen Gruber-Miller of The Des Moines Register have this report.

According to the article, “If the current version of the plan is approved, it would undo parts of a merit-based selection process that Iowans put into the state Constitution by vote in the early 1960s.”

Posted at 7:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Will the Supreme Court Take Up Racial Discrimination in Cable Television? The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals won’t disrupt prior rulings allowing a $10 billion suit against Charter and a $20 billion suit against Comcast for refusing to carry Byron Allen’s networks.” Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter about a superseding opinion that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Posted at 7:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“D.C. judge: No actual damages, no claims for data breach victims.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Posted at 5:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“McClatchy buyouts could claim chain’s full-time Guantanamo reporter”: Erik Wemple of The Washington Post has this report about Carol Rosenberg, who has thoroughly covered Guantanamo for The Miami Herald since January 2002.

This blog came into existence in May 2002, and I have linked to Ms. Rosenberg’s unparalleled Guantanamo coverage repeatedly since then. At some point, Ms. Rosenberg joined the ranks of “How Appealing” readers and thereafter sent me a kind note thanking me for featuring her work on my blog and enclosing various items of Miami Herald-related swag.

Posted at 4:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Liberals Learned To Love Scalia-Style Constitutional Originalism: Progressives lean into the Constitution with the new conservative Supreme Court.” Paul Blumenthal of HuffPost has this report.

Posted at 3:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Louisiana abortion law won’t go into effect Monday as the Supreme Court buys itself time”: Tucker Higgins of CNBC has this report.

Posted at 1:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“Dems hope to draw blood from potential Trump SCOTUS pick; Conservatives say liberals are bent on ‘destroying’ the activist Neomi Rao before Trump can put her on his Supreme Court short list”: Andrew Restuccia, Gabby Orr, and Anita Kumar of Politico have this report.

Posted at 1:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Has the Supreme Court lost its legitimacy? The good news is that looking back at the court’s often tumultuous history, today’s partisan split is not unprecedented.” Peter Irons has this essay online at NBC News.

Posted at 1:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“Originalism off the Ground”: At “Dorf on Law,” Eric Segall has a post that begins, “Professors Will Baude and Stephen Sachs are at it again. They have continued their quest to convince the world that originalism is, indeed, our law.”

Posted at 1:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Northam Controversy, the Kavanaugh Controversy, and Long-Past Misbehavior”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 12:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Two years in, Trump’s appeals court confirmations at a historic high point”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 9:35 AM by Howard Bashman



“Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings”: In Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column. It begins, “The federal judiciary has built an imposing pay wall around its court filings, charging a preposterous 10 cents a page for electronic access to what are meant to be public records. A pending lawsuit could help tear that wall down.”

Posted at 8:17 AM by Howard Bashman



“OT2018 #17: ‘The Most Distinguished Recording Location.'” You can access today’s new installment of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Dan Epps, via this link.

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman